Complete Schedule and Archive of PLOS /r/science AMAs

PLOS Science Wednesday is a weekly science communication series featuring live, direct chats with PLOS authors on redditscience (/r/science), the popular online gathering place for researchers, students and others interested in science which has more than 8 million registered members. The series provides a forum for PLOS authors to communicate their work and interact directly with fellow researchers and the public. If you are a PLOS author who is interested in participating in a PLOS Science Wednesday AMA, please email Sara Kassabian at skassabian@plos.org.

Eric Leuthardt and Joshua Shimony (Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine), David Tran (University of Florida College of Medicine). Hyperthermic Laser Ablation of Recurrent Glioblastoma Leads to Temporary Disruption of the Peritumoral Blood Brain Barrier. 4/20 AMA archive. Read the PLOS ONEarticle.

Lucie Etienne, Michael Emerman (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center). The Role of the Antiviral APOBEC3 Gene Family in Protecting Chimpanzees against Lentiviruses from Monkeys. 3/30 AMA archive. Read the PLOS Pathogensarticle.

Claudia Denkinger (Harvard University), David Dowdy (Johns Hopkins School of Public Health). Do We Need to Detect Isoniazid Resistance in Addition to Rifampicin Resistance in Diagnostic Tests for Tuberculosis?2/10 AMA archive. Read the PLOS ONEarticle.

Lee de Mora, Robert Brewin and Thomas Jackson (Plymouth Marine Laboratory, UK). On the Potential of Surfers to Monitor Environmental Indicators in the Coastal Zone.11/18 AMA archive. Read the PLOS ONEarticle.

Albert Ko and Federico Costa (Yale School of Public Health). Global Morbidity and Mortality of Leptospirosis: A Systematic Review. 11/11 AMA archive. Read the PLOS NTDSarticle.

Assessing Measles Transmission in the United States Following a Large Outbreak in California; Seth Blumberg (physician/scientist at UCSF) and Jennifer Zipprich (CA state epidemiologist); 6/3 AMA archive; Read the PLOS Currents Outbreaks article.

Questions may be posted ahead of and during the AMA and the authors answer on Wed 1–2pm ET. Archives are available for later reading, re-mixing or reuse. Please use the hashtag #PLOSredditAMA when discussing this series on Twitter. You can also download and use the reddit AMA app.

Future PLOS Science Wednesday AMAs will be posted to this page and announced on Twitter. Featured authors are selected by PLOS editors; PLOS authors or Academic Editors may nominate a PLOS article for this series by emailing plosreddit@plos.org with the article URL, author(s) and a lay summary (50-100 words) of the research.

Why is PLOS doing redditscience AMAs?

PLOS sees these author AMAs as enhancements to the journal articles on which they are based. They also function as in-depth archived community discussions on important and timely science topics, which are available in perpetuity on the redditscience subthread for all to read and re-purpose. On PLOS journal sites, each PLOS Science Wednesday AMA transcript is linked to the “Related Content” tabs at the top of their respective PLOS articles. We encourage other health and science communicators to take and reuse this content in whatever ways may assist your purposes.

You may also be interested in…

Monthly Updates from PLOS – Sign up for news of general interest to researchers and other PLOS readers.

reddit is one of the web’s oldest and largest open source communities, where registered members post links, comment and rate posted items in a wide variety of subject areas. As of March 2015, reddit received more than 6.6 billion page views and 151 million unique visitors. /r/science is a lively 8 million member “subreddit” within reddit. Each subreddit is independent and moderated by a team of volunteers.

Post navigation

As PLOS Senior Social Media & Community Editor, Victoria Costello oversees the organization’s social media efforts and manages the PLOS BLOGS Network. Prior to joining PLOS in 2012, Costello worked as an science journalist and author in the areas of psychology and neuroscience. orcid.org/0000-0002-8715-2896

PLOS Science Wednesday is a weekly science communication series featuring live, direct chats with PLOS authors on redditscience (/r/science), the popular online gathering place for researchers, students and others interested in science which has over 8 million registered members. The series provides a forum for PLOS authors to communicate their work and interact directly with fellow researchers and the public.